On 17 October, US President Donald Trump told Fox News, “I hope to see Saudi Arabia go in, and I hope to see others go in. I think when Saudi Arabia goes in, everybody goes in.” The statement was calculated to reignite Washington's normalization push and reassert Riyadh's place at the heart of the US-Israeli regional alliance plan.
Saudi Arabia's path to normalization with Israel threatens a regional ruptureThe kingdom's possible accession to the Abraham Accords could catalyze a new regional security order – but at great political, ideological, and moral cost.